Hi, I followed an old topic on this board about installing Frostwire with java. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=206893 I followed this for Java> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk I downloaded and installed Frostwire but...

Having a bunch of problems with my wifi (cutting out despite strong signal). In any case, long story short, I want to install the proprietary driver for my my TP LINK wifi adapter (TL-WN822N). I've downloaded the driver, compiled and 'installed' (sudo make install) but no clue how to replace the de...

I successfully transferred a media file (.AVI) to my USB (FAT32) which played on my TV without issue. The next time I did this with a different file in the same file format it would not show on the TV. I tested the mounted USB, the file was there and played using VLC without issue on the desktop (de...

In a Facebook forum, someone talked about being upset with Ubuntu, a distribution, and deciding to change to Cinnamon, a desktop environment. As a service to all newbies, I would like to make clear in the simpler terms of a relative newbie and less-than-geek user an important difference. A distribu...

1) Take a look here, you may find just what you are wanting . . Once I have downloaded a theme, I open Thunar file manager, navigate to /usr/share and then right-click on the theme folder, and choose to "Open folder as root". Enter my password and now I have permission to copy/move that downloaded ...

1) Take a look here, you may find just what you are wanting . . Once I have downloaded a theme, I open Thunar file manager, navigate to /usr/share and then right-click on the theme folder, and choose to "Open folder as root". Enter my password and now I have permission to copy/move that downloaded ...

Hi guys, looking for a little help with a theme. I really like the darker colour on the menu and the panel after looking at screen shots of cinnamon but can't seem to replicate it on Xfce. I don't want to change the window colour really just the whisker menu with a darker background and the panel. W...

Yep, the 1Gb card was definitely the issue. It doesn't even look like a compatible card anyway and as far as I can see for my laptop you're to use both slots of 512k to get max permissible RAM instead of 1 card (don't even think they do a 1Gb stand alone card for this machine) so that appears to hav...

Hey, thanks for the advice. The pre-installed RAM was only 512k but the guy down the computer shop found me a 1Gb he had lying around, obviously it hasn't been in good shape. I will stick the old RAM back in and see how that performs. In the meantime I might be able to get another 1 Gb card from som...

Hi niowluka, I ran the test because I was experiencing problems with web browser crashing. It's an old laptop and the advice I had so far was it may be my video card. I am experiencing this issue more so when just running on battery power however I was also advised it may be good to check the memory...

Ok, so I ran this test and then wasn't able to save the results anywhere hence the image below. Number 1 + 2 are cut off but the same as the rest until you get to 11. So, I don't know what any of this means but there appears to be errors? If so, can anyone help me with what to do about it? Thanks, ~...

Thanks for that WharfRat, I think I have narrowed this problem down to the battery. It's a brand new battery and even fully charged it crashes when I try to boot and I get a screen message something about a kernel panic? When I run recovery mode and fix broken packages or whatever and then run norma...

It seems to be more to do with swap? Anyway I can't really complain as since running in recovery mode and using fsck eth0 has disappeared! confirmed with iwconfig also below. I don't need it and Boot time is a satisfactory 40s. My browsers have stopped crashing too :) [ 4.760831] EXT4-fs (sda1): mou...